THE GUITAR
The Story:
Melody Wilder (Saffron Burrows), has the misfortune to be fired from her job, dumped by her boyfriend and told by her doctor (Janeane Garofalo) that she has inoperable throat cancer -- all on the same day.
With a month or so left to live, Melody decides to go out quietly but in style. She rents an enormous Gotham loft and fills it with high-end furniture and knick-knacks, brazenly ordering from catalogs with an arsenal of credit cards by her side. Despite its mostly measured tone, the film gleefully conveys a sense of the endless, extravagant possibilities available when time is short and money ceases to be an object.
Though Melody improbably has no friends or family, She engages both the pizza delivery girl Cookie (Paz de la Huerta) and furniture delivery man Rosco (Isaach de Bankole).Melody doesn't connect to people as much as she does to her most extreme purchase -- a red electric guitar she's longed for since her unhappy childhood. These life affirming experiences transform her irrevocably.
Starring:
Saffron Burrows, Isaach De Bankole, Paz de la Huerta, Ashlie Atkinson, Lawrence Ballard, Chris Bauer, Bill Camp, Joel Cannon, Lori Tan Chinn, Janeane Garofalo, Mark A. Keeton.
Directed By:
Amy Redford
Release:
2008
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